https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/11/15/18047360/trump-lies-media-strategy-george-lakoff How the media should respond to Trump’s lies A linguist explains how Trump uses lies to divert attention from the “big truths.” ...Journalists could engage in what I’ve called “truth sandwiches,” which means...

Historical context. Not off topic. DAN RATHER https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather During Richard Nixon's presidency, critics accused Rather of biased coverage against him. At a Houston news conference in March 1974, Nixon fielded a question from Rather, still CBS's White House correspondent, ...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/saint-mark-mosaic-missing-decades-returns-cyprus-181118133548230.html Saint Mark mosaic, missing for decades, returns to Cyprus One of the last missing pieces of Byzantine art stolen from Cyprus in the 1970s has been handed back to the country by a renowned Dut...

I wonder if the CIA will want to give too detailed information cause dotus may once again leak the source to the whole world. Or they did and they're gobsmacked that nothing's been done and thus the leak to the media? Lindsey Graham was just on Meet the Press and right this second he is so not on T...

Sounds like Discovery ID channel. We also hit up the 12 hours a day that HLN runs old episodes of Forensic Files. That narrator has a great voice to fall asleep to. My wife puts on Forensic Files or Joe Kenda when we go to bed at night. I'm afraid I'm going to wake up a serial killer someday. :eek2...

**Horizontal Hijack** One aspect of Stern I cherished was his contextual information and sources. This weekend I am working on a web page for aggregating Federal Court feeds using Feedlaw as the primary source point with the feeds for the Fed and appellate courts for the 11+1 (DC), and the Supreme....

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/frank-rich-trump-is-starting-to-panic.html According to the New York Times, Facebook knew about Russian election interference earlier (and in more detail) than Mark Zuckerberg has let on, but rather than sound an alarm the company went as far as enlisting a Re...